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Example sentences for "favourable"

Lexicographically close words:
favorite; favorites; favoritism; favors; favour; favourably; favoure; favoured; favourer; favourers
  1. Perhaps I shall be able to broach the subject again later on, and obtain a more favourable result; to the extent, I mean, that a small sum will be sent to you.

  2. In the most favourable case the "Tristan" period, with its desperate and terrible exertions, would not be fit for our meeting again for the first time.

  3. The correspondence between Goethe and Schiller alone pleased me much; it reminded me of our relation, and showed me the precious fruits which, in favourable circumstances, might spring from our working together.

  4. Considering the well-known favour in which you stand with the Princess, and the sterling quality of her sympathy, she will not fail to have a favourable influence on the course your circumstances will take in the immediate future.

  5. All that I still desire in this world is a favourable mood and disposition for work, and I find it difficult enough to protect these from the attack of vulgarity.

  6. Just as I was in the most favourable mood I have torn Siegfried from my heart, and placed him under lock and key as one buried alive.

  7. In case my inquiry leads to a favourable result, I will let you know.

  8. I cannot help this, because I must wait for the most favourable mood to go on with the work.

  9. I am glad that the matter has been carried through, at least with favourable appearances; with the Queen I was really pleased, and to individual friends I have given great pleasure; that must suffice.

  10. A more favourable hour will come, and must be waited for, and in the meantime I can only ask you not to be unjust to your friend, and to practise the virtue of the mule, as Byron calls patience.

  11. This, I think, will be your most favourable chance in the circumstances.

  12. By next spring I hope your personal affairs will have taken a more favourable turn, to which I may, perhaps, be able to contribute something.

  13. Nevertheless, I think it preferable to wait for an opportunity more favourable to both of us, which, I hope, will occur soon.

  14. I don't wish to say that my work is as good as Lowell's "Soul of the Far East;" but it is a curious fact that in at least a majority of the favourable criticisms I have been spoken of as far more successful than Lowell.

  15. Suppose we use integers instead of quintillions or centillions, and say that an individual represents by inheritance a total of 10--5 of impulses favourable to social life, 5 of the reverse.

  16. Perhaps you will think the favourable notice very kindly under the circumstances.

  17. Cats are unpopular in Izumo, but in H[=o]ki I saw that they seemed to exist under more favourable conditions.

  18. A glance through the gate of science acts upon passionate spirits as the charm of charms: they will probably become dreamers, or in the most favourable cases poets, so great is their desire for the happiness of the man who can discern.

  19. It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of the reason than immorality.

  20. These latter, thanks to their more favourable lot, did not experience this feeling of dread, but they nevertheless continue in the same groove.

  21. We must consider ourselves as variable quantities whose productive capacity may in favourable circumstances reach the greatest possible heights: we must therefore reflect upon these circumstances, and spare no pains in studying them.

  22. I said nothing to the young marquis, as his sister had forbidden me, but I foresaw that this event would be favourable to my suit.

  23. If you wish to be happy fancy that you are so, though I confess that circumstances favourable to this state are often beyond our control.

  24. The favourable breeze subsided into a perfect calm and left the ship surrounded by loose ice.

  25. The wind continuing favourable after leaving Yarmouth, about nine this morning we passed the rugged and bold projecting rock termed Johnny Groat's house and soon afterwards Duncansby Head, and then entered the Pentland Firth.

  26. The chief evinced much penetration and intelligence during the whole of this conversation, which gave us a favourable opinion of his intellectual powers.

  27. The ground on which they are erected is sandy and favourable to cultivation.

  28. A winter encampment is not a favourable situation for viewing this phenomenon as the trees in general hide the sky.

  29. God is favourable to those whom He makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age; the last death will be so much the less painful; it will kill but a half or a quarter of a man.

  30. It so happened that a favourable crisis had come over Ernest and relieved him, and he gave no further cause for anxiety.

  31. This compelled us, directly we were mounted, to gallop to the Bois, a procedure not very favourable to confidential effusions.

  32. Meanwhile, does the mother appear favourable to your request?

  33. A young poet comes forward; an early and favourable notice appears of some boyish verses of his in the Examiner, independently of all political opinion.

  34. Patmore for a favourable critique of Hunt's poetry, reserving to himself the privilege of answering such an article.

  35. At that moment a third Malay glided on the scene, brandished his spear, and stood by the swaying combatants awaiting a favourable opportunity to thrust his weapon into the white man's back.

  36. Dressing a diver in the most favourable circumstances involves a considerable amount of physical exertion and violence of action.

  37. The solitary exception to the favourable sentiments he inspired was found in the bitter disdain which Gonsalvo, with scarcely any attempt at disguise, exhibited towards him.

  38. He is even a favourable specimen; for the conditions of art require that in a work of fiction a veil should be thrown over some of the worst horrors of persecution.

  39. Meanwhile, despite of circumstances that would seem peculiarly favourable to a young girl's happiness, Ida's tendency to melancholy was increasing upon her at a rate which began to cause Miss Ludington as well as Paul serious anxiety.

  40. Hull told him that the case had taken a favourable turn, and according to her previous experience with such attacks, she would probably be as well as usual by the following day.

  41. In his lecture on "The Former Climate of the Polar Regions," he says: "The character of the coasts in the Arctic regions is especially favourable to geological investigations.

  42. The poverty of New Zealand in bats is very remarkable when compared with our own islands where there are at least twelve distinct species, though we have a far less favourable climate.

  43. If we compare the Indian Ocean with the South Atlantic we shall see that the position and outline of the former are very favourable for the accumulation of a large body of warm water moving northwards.

  44. This particular calumny was well watered and manured with all these by-products of human life, and it grew to full size and height with a rapidity that could not have been attained under less favourable conditions.

  45. I trust that my friend the reader may catch in a favourable spirit some faint echo of this ringing which, although “Made in Germany,” is peculiarly French.

  46. However that may be, even on a fine day, with the ropes loose and under the most favourable conditions, to stand motionless for two hours is a painful punishment.

  47. I made up my mind to start; the thick undergrowth of young firs was not favourable for walking, and the displaced foliage made a noise as I made my way through it, so I had to creep along under the lowest branches.

  48. Upon these follows increased population, and that population concentrated upon spots favourable for all this activity.

  49. In adducing this example, I use one most favourable to my opponents.

  50. Let us now look at such facts as we have from the more favourable side.

  51. Christianity, once more, has been favourable at least to the development of mind, the cultivation of letters, the advancement of science.

  52. An old-fashioned gallantry induces us to accept from each of these ladies her own estimate of herself, and fortunately it is favourable in every case.

  53. The local resistance gradually passed beyond a mere defensive behind the walls of towns, and the breaking up of the Persian hosts, brought about by the wide extent of the conquered territory, was favourable to the bold partisan.

  54. On the south frontier the barbarian Blemyes advanced, apparently in agreement with the portion of the inhabitants of Egypt favourable to Palmyra, and possessed themselves of a great part of upper Egypt.

  55. Nevertheless the Parthians, partly because their levy seemed as though it would break up, perhaps also under the influence of Roman money, granted peace (218) on comparatively favourable terms.

  56. On one occasion he joined a party of Indians who were going out there deer-hunting; and, though there was nothing specially new to him in their methods, he was enabled to examine the country under favourable circumstances.

  57. But fortune was more favourable to them than to the generality of Mexican travellers in those days; for they covered the long journey, of over a thousand miles, from the frontier to Chihuahua in North Mexico, without a single misadventure.

  58. Even the Government of Elizabeth, favourable as it was to the small man, would not intervene without first being informed of the nature of the custom.

  59. But after all, the profits arising from favourable economic circumstances may be of very little advantage to the mass of cultivators.

  60. On a manor where the custom is least favourable to the tenants' interests the former shades into the latter.

  61. On the whole, the individual cases of enterprise and prosperity among the customary tenants of the fifteenth century do fit into the view that the economic environment was favourable to the peasantry.

  62. At the same time, the revolution was probably hastened by a change in commercial policy, which, while encouraging the export trade in woollen cloth, was after 1485 less favourable to the corn-grower.

  63. It is possible, however, that the Crown tenants received more favourable treatment than did those on manors which were in private hands.

  64. If it were there would be few statutes and few riots; for the law looks with a favourable eye on such attempts at improved cultivation, and the peasants have long been doing on a small scale what the capitalist farmer does on a large.

  65. Ever since, we have beaten about the bay with the variety of a favourable gale one night for a few hours, and a dead calm yesterday, in which we almost rolled our masts out of the ship.

  66. We had two days of dead calm, then one or two of a very light, favourable breeze, and yesterday we ran 175 miles with the wind right aft.

  67. But they, as was hinted before, as if they were unconcerned, made no reply to the favourable signal of the Prince.

  68. How favourable an alteration has been produced by permitting the free publication of the Bible.

  69. Give wicked men leave to judge of themselves, and they will pass a sentence favourable enough.

  70. She embraced the favourable moment, and set him at liberty.

  71. She had created a favourable atmosphere; she had provided suitable machinery; it remained to set the wheels going round.

  72. She submitted her scheme to Mr. Villiers, President of the Poor Law Board, who seems to have been somewhat favourable to it.

  73. I would now venture to ask your favourable consideration for this proposal, because, on the organisation of a service adequate for the object, depends the entire future of the Public Health in India.

  74. The time was favourable to a new experiment.

  75. The situation was in that favourable condition for moving Ministers when there is a feeling in the air that "something must be done.

  76. It took me some time to rub into his rusty head the terms of my very favourable proposal.

  77. Putting the various items together, it might seem that in favourable circumstances there would be some twenty-three or twenty-four shillings a week for a family to live on all the year round.

  78. The circumstances, perhaps, are not altogether favourable to the formation of trustworthy opinions.

  79. Public opinion concerning the political morality of the English court was not gratifying, nor was it rendered more favourable by these recent transactions.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    favourable breeze; favourable impression; favourable opportunity; favourable variations; favourable wind